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Posts Filed Under: history

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Historicist: The Dawn of the Horseless Era

Frederick Barnard Fetherstonhaugh owned Toronto's first "motor carriage."

Believed to be the first automobile in Toronto, photographed circa 1912.  City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 1244, Item 56.
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Historicist: Throwing Intellectual Bombs

Rabble-rousing feminist and anarchist Emma Goldman died in Toronto in 1940.

Mugshot of Emma Goldman, 1911, {a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2004000751/"}Library of Congress{/a} (LC-B2- 127-11).
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The First Official Victoria Day

Back in 1901, the holiday weekend was a washout.

Source: the News, May 25, 1901.
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Building Storeys: TTC Yards

Where Toronto's public transit vehicles go for rest or repairs.

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Historicist: Happy 50th Birthday, North York!

Celebrating a suburban golden jubilee back in '72.

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Building Storeys: Subways

Moving Torontonians in red or silver trains since 1954.

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Camp 30 Fights On

A tour of the last surviving World War II German POW camp in Canada reveals hopeful plans for its future.

Entryway to triple barracks, used to house 300 POWs at Camp 30.
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Historicist: Stone Free

That time Jimi Hendrix mistook heroin for Bromo Seltzer and got arrested in Toronto.

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The Saga Of The Maple Leafs’ Futility (Part Two)

Forty-five years ago yesterday, the Leafs won the Stanley Cup. Here's some more of what's happened since.

Photo by {a href=:http://soundcloud.com/a-tribe-called-red/red-skin-girl-atcr-remix"}gardinergirl{/a}, from the {a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/torontoist/"}Torontoist Flickr Pool{/a}.

Building Storeys: The Trillium

For over a century, the Trillium has provided Torontonians with a steam-driven perspective of Toronto Harbour and Toronto Island.

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The Saga of the Maple Leafs’ Futility (Part One)

Forty-five years ago today, the Leafs won the Stanley Cup. Here's some of what's happened since.

Excerpt, the Globe and Mail, May 3, 1967.

Historicist: How (Not) to Marry a Millionaire

That time Toronto police shut down professional matchmaker Nelle Brooke Stull.

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Building Storeys: Rail Bridges

Moving (and preserving) Torontonians over and under busy train tracks.

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Historicist: The Grand Tour

Frederick Gardiner and Tracy leMay show off the possibilities and problems of their newly created realm: Metro Toronto.

Etobicoke Clerk's Dept. photo of officials touring a residential development, likely Don Mills, 1950s, from the City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 213, Series 1464, File 7, Item 3.
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Lost Tunes

As Record Store Day approaches, a look at some of Toronto's past music merchants.

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Dial 1050 CHUM for Dick Clark

In honour of "America's Oldest Teenager," a look at his brief stint as a Toronto radio DJ...sort of.

Cover of the June 10, 1963 edition of the CHUM Chart.
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Historicist: In the Dark

How Toronto survived, and even enjoyed, the Northeast Blackout of 1965.

Children enjoying a skate at Nathan Phillips Square during the 1965 blackout, with light provided by city parks trucks. Illustration by Jeremy Kai/Torontoist.
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“The Greatest Marine Disaster in History”

How Torontonians learned about the Titanic disaster a century ago.

An ad for voyages of the Titanic that never took place, published the day before the unsinkable ship sank. The Globe, April 13, 1912.
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Prehistoric Toronto: The Terrain of Our City Through the Ages

What was happening here hundred of millions of years ago?

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Historicist: Playing the Field

The double life of Arthur Irwin, baseball star and polygamist.

Arthur Irwin (left) and Tommy McCarthy of the Philadelphia Quakers from {a href="digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?56787"}New York Public Library{/a}.